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important roles. But the heroine is the beautitiful, wilful daughter of a headstrong, vulgar, old nobleman. Oaths, vulgarity, uncontrolled pas sions are given undue importance in the effort to paint the society of those times truly, and one can scarcely agree with the author's insistence on the heroine's true womanliness, for many of her escapades and speeches show quite opposite characteristics. It is quite evident that the story has been written with a view to dramatization. There are a number of scenes well adapted for such a purpose. Upland Game Birds. By Edwyn Sandys and T. S. Van Dvke. Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1902. (vii+429 PP-) This is the second volume in the " American Sportsman's Library," edited by Caspar Whit ney, which, judged by the excellence of the volume before us, deserves a place on book shelves of the lover of sport and outdoor life. Mr. Sandys writes, from wide personal knowl edge and experience, concerning the quail, part ridge, grouse, ptarmigan, wild turkey, wood cock and plover; Mr. Van Dyke treats of the quail and the grouse of the Pacific Coast. Both the full-page pictures of the various up land game birds, and the description in the text of each variety, are excellent; while stories of the field, the woods, the meadow and the camp, with which its pages are laden, make the book interesting reading even for the reader who lays no claim to the title of sportsman. NEW LAW BOOKS. Studies in Juridical Law. By Horace E. Smith, LL.D. Chicago: T. H. Flood and Company. 1902. (xxvi + 359 PP-) The title of this volume leads one to expect a somewhat more important contribution to legal literature than the book itself proves to be. In fact, the author's purpose is simply to set before the general reader and before the student who has made a hurried study of the law with a view to admission to the bar at the earliest possible moment, the cardinal principles of govern

ment and law, a knowledge of which, the author rightly believes, is essential to a liberal education and to good citizenship under a republican form of Supplementing government. The the book main fulfills part ofthis thepurpose. volume are two papers, now reprinted; one upon the Plea of Insanity, and the other upon Literary Property. The Highwav Law of the State of New York. Containing all Laws relating to High ways as Amended to the Close of the Legisla tive Session of 1902. With Annotations, Forms and Cross References. By H. Noyes Greene. Second Edition. By L. L. Boyce. Albany, N. Y. : Matthew Bender. 1902. (xxxviii + 47 1 pp.) This volume, which brings the New York high way laws down to date, is of especial value to county, town and village officials. It treats in a satisfactory way the " Highway Law," chapter nineteen of the General Laws, which deals with the powers and duties of highway officers and overseers of highways; highway labor and as sessment therefor; laying out, altering and dis continuing highways and laying out private roads; bridges; ferries; and county supervision of highways. Separate chapters cover the " goodroads " laws, the grade-crossing laws, and the sidepath laws, — these last of so recent date that only one case under them has been reported. The Elements of the Law of Sales of Personal Propertv. By Wm. L. Burdick, Ph.D., LL.B. Chicago: T. H. Flood and Company. 1901. (xi + 2 1 4 pp.) Professor Burdick has, in this volume, given the law student an excellent presentation of the elements of the law of sales of personal property. It makes no pretense of being an exhaustive study of the subject; but it sets forth clearly and concisely the essential principles under the law of sales. We are glad to note that the author empha sizes the importance of case-reading; he cites under each paragraph of the text a few lead ing cases, selected with a view of covering the whole subject, when read in connection with the text.